How am I supposed to come up with stuff to blog about when Reynolds is already saying everything that needs to be said about the Giuliana Sgrena situation?

The car carrying the recently freed hostage/reporter for an Italian communist paper was shot at by US troops as it approached the Baghdad Airport. US troops say the car was travelling towards the checkpoint at speed and ignored their warnings so they had to open fire. Sgrena claims... a lot of things. They were driving haphazardly enough that just before they had almost lost control of the car... they weren't speeding towards a checkpoint... there was no checkpoint... all she remembers is fire... they were shot at by a tank... they were specifically targeted because the US didn't like that Italy had paid the ransom...

Her claims that they weren't speeding towards a checkpoint and that they were purposefully targeted are... quite worthy of doubt to say the least. Not that that will stop the anti-Americans from using the incident to get people worked up.